[JURIST] A German lawmaker has launched a challenge to the new EU reform treaty [JURIST news archive], properly known as the Treaty of Lisbon [official website; PDF text], asking that Germany's Federal Constitutional Court [official website] rule on whether it is legal, according to Monday media reports. A lawyer for
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[JURIST] Registry officials at the International Criminal Court (ICC) [official website] met Monday with a delegation of Uganda's rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) [MIPT backgrounder; JURIST news archive] to discuss procedural matters regarding the prosecution of several LRA leaders. The ICC said that the meeting was only to discuss procedural
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[JURIST] A Mauritanian detainee held at Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] has threatened to sue US officials, alleging that he has been tortured in US custody. Lawyers for Mohamed Ould Sillahi [Amnesty International profile] told Reuters Monday that Sillahi was also tortured by officials in Jordan and Mauritania [JURIST news
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[JURIST] Chinese prosecutors increased the number of corruption convictions against government officials by 30 percent in the past five years, according to a Monday report by Chinese Procurator-General Jia Chunwang [official profile, in Chinese] at the First Session of the 11th National People's Congress. Jia, who has headed the Supreme
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[JURIST] A court in the Philippines acquitted Imelda Marcos and two co-defendants of 32 counts of illegal fund transfers Monday, ending a 17-year criminal trial in which prosecutors accused the widow of former President Ferdinand E. Marcos [official profile] of illegally transferring up to $863 million to Swiss bank accounts.
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[JURIST] The US Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) [official websites] have launched a criminal investigation into troubled mortgage lender Countrywide Financial [corporate website], according to a New York Times report Sunday. Federal authorities are investigating whether Countrywide criminally misrepresented its financial condition. The FBI is
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